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Unregistered 253: Paul VanderKlay

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The Power of Asceticism

The Bible does not promise happiness ever, but it does promise something like the attitudes happy. Are you blessed? Are you? I mean, it is the word there word is there. Joy joy, joy often more joy. And glory. Now, when you get to Romans, some of what you're talking about,. yeah, will be in there in the book of Romans, right? Because Paul will talk often in Greek about Epithumia. So Thumia is just desire and epi is sort of an over desire. This is this is a long standing conversation within Christianity that we have to watch our over desires and Augustine, of course, we'll pick up.

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